From the Washington (Pa.) Reporter, 7/26/1865, p. 3, c. 1

THE GUNS and ammunition captured in and around Richmond are being taken to Fortress Monroe. The guns are all of large caliber, ranging from seven to ten inches. The ten-inch guns were taken from Fort Darling. They are of rebel manufacture, and nearly new, having been cast in 1864. They are said, by competent judges, to be excellent specimens of serviceable ordnance. They bear a strong resemblance to the Armstrong gun, being reinforced at the breach by concentric bands. All were cast in Richmond. Nearly every one of them is effectually spiked. These guns were never finished at the foundries where they were cast, and they bear the roughness peculiar to castings when first taken from the sand in which they were moulded.

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